DVD deleted 40 minutes!

The TV version is the full three-hour version. The video and DVD version is the butchered short version that totally ruins the movie. There's so much more material in the long version it's hard to recount all of it, almost every scene has at least one extra line, but here's a rough overview of the extra stuff:

There's a prologue summarizing the ship's construction and sinking, with file footage of the Olympic, the Queen Mary, and the Lusitania.

The movie begins aboard the Carpathia with the rescue of the survivors, then tells the story of the sinking in flashback.

Chief Officer Wilde writes a letter to his sister about the near-collision with the New York.

An impressive matte shot of a tender approaching the Titanic in Queenstown. (Actually, there are a lot of FX shots that were cut from the short version.)

John Jacob Astor shells out $800 for a dress for his wife when the ship stops in Queenstown.

The boot shiners talk about seducing stewardesses when the captain goes to sleep.

Many ominous shots of the ice field foreshadow the disaster.

Thomas Andrews stops in the linen room for tea.

Lawrence Beesley describes his theory about the upper-class guy in Third Class in much more detail.

Jack Thayer and Milton Long spy on women in the sauna.

When Astor asks his wife, "Do you love me?" the entire scene is performed differently; obviously a different take.

Rene Harris trips on the Grand Staircase and breaks her arm. Later she arrives for dinner with her arm in a sling and everyone applauds her.

Steerage passengers go wild when a rat shows up in the general room, and a drunken party erupts.

Ice falls from the iceberg onto the well deck.

The boilers blow off steam with a shattering roar.

Captain Smith orders Lightoller and Murdoch to uncover the boats, Moody to muster the passengers.

Wilde pauses while uncovering a boat, apparently despondent, and Lightoller watches him with concern.

When Henry and Rene Harris come out on deck, Rene says, "I didn't know it was a party."

The unidentified French woman who doesn't want to get into Boat Six says the boats aren't safe and she wants to go back to her cabin.

Benjamin Guggenheim asks someone in a lifeboat to tell his wife that he dressed in his best and is prepared to go down as a gentleman.

In general, most scenes just run longer, creating a more palpable sense of fear, urgency, or horror, whichever is appropriate.

After Lawrence Beesley jumps into Boat Thirteen, Barrett asks him what he's got there, and Bessley answers, "a dressing gown." Then, as Boat Fifteen is coming down on top of them, they keep sawing at the fall while Barrett pushes the boat out of the way so fifteen can lower past them.

Certain scenes have music, such as Ida Strauss refusing to leave her husband, and Katie Gilnagh giving Daniel Buckley her shawl, thus making those scenes more effective.

Several scenes of the boats rowing away from the sinking ship.

Henry Harris puts his wife in a boat, telling her, "I'll see you later, kid," to which she answers, "I'd better!"

Michel Navratil puts his children in a boat.

Scenes of Father Byles leading steerage passengers in prayer are much longer.

There's music as the ship sinks.

Screams of swimmers in the water after the ship sinks.

There are more scenes of bedraggled survivors aboard the Carpathia.

The "commentary" between Lawrence Beesley and Leigh Goodwin is much longer.

As I said, almost every scene in the entire movie runs longer, so these are just highlights. The three-hour version is so much better.

Collin R. Skocik